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Mina Mixes
Oct 07
Dear colleagues,
I have a lot of negative energy, Because of not passing any extra level. Any suggestions or encouragement advice?
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I mean, you're already at the summit. Your SPI is 3,9 million. Cut yourself some slack. If being at my SPI (1,25 million) means being in the top 3% of SoundGym users then I can't even begin to imagine where you're at.

It must be really really hard pushing forward at the stage you're at. Allow yourself to relax mentally. I struggle with this myself.

Hope this helps. Take care =)
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Mikko Patama
Oct 08
Your current SPI doesn’t just prove that you can do better than most users here; considering how subtle things need to be heard on much lower levels, you are likely to hear things like compression and frequency balance more precisely than majority of human beings on this planet, including people who work on music for a living. Let that sink in. You have exceptionally well trained ears already for working on the TECHNICAL aspects of music mixing and mastering.

If I was in your situation, instead of trying to reach another milestone within this closed gamified system, I would focus all my efforts in working on what actually matters most: recording/mixing/mastering/producing music and putting those diamond ears to work. Or in your case: mixing live shows.
Actually, that would be my very first advice for ANYONE using Soundgym, from the very beginning. The workouts you do here are comparable to technical drills and etudes that instrumentalists do as part of their personal practise routine, since what actually makes great musicians is playing actual music with and in front of people. A person can do those drills for years and achieve absolutely mastery of their scales, chords and arpeggios, but that alone wouldn’t make them good musician.
Same applies to Soundgym: I believe that a person could in theory achieve everything that is possible to achieve on this platform (certified member status etc.) and still deliver pretty awful sounding mixes, assuming they haven’t listened to a lot of well mixed material, mixed enough full songs and developed a solid working routine there.

In short: be proud of your Diamond Ears and focus on music. Learning never stops in that field.